CVE-2025-39836Out-of-bounds Write in Linux

CWE-787Out-of-bounds Write22 documents6 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.35%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedSep 16
Latest updateApr 9

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi: stmm: Fix incorrect buffer allocation method The communication buffer allocated by setup_mm_hdr() is later on passed to tee_shm_register_kernel_buf(). The latter expects those buffers to be contiguous pages, but setup_mm_hdr() just uses kmalloc(). That can cause various corruptions or BUGs, specifically since commit 9aec2fb0fd5e ("slab: allocate frozen pages"), though it was broken before as well. Fix this by using alloc

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

NVDlinux/linux_kernel6.86.12.45+2
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.12.48-1+1
Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 6.8.0-106.106
CVEListV5linux/linuxc44b6be62e8dd4ee0a308c36a70620613e6fc55f77ff27ff0e4529a003c8a1c2492c111968c378d3+3
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.16.5-1 (forky)

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

10
OSV
linux-raspi, linux-raspi-realtime vulnerabilities2026-04-01
OSV
linux-azure-6.8 vulnerabilities2026-03-25
OSV
linux-azure vulnerabilities2026-03-25
OSV
linux-aws-6.8 vulnerabilities2026-03-23
OSV
linux-realtime, linux-realtime-6.8 vulnerabilities2026-03-17

📋Vendor Advisories

11
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure FIPS) vulnerabilities2026-04-09
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities2026-04-01
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities2026-03-25
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities2026-03-25
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities2026-03-23
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